New Information Emerges in Notorious B.I.G. Murder

By Sarah Crow Posted Jan 7th 2011 01:45PM

Investigators are now re-examining the murder of rap legend The Notorious B.I.G. -- born Christopher Wallace -- more than 13 years after he was gunned down in Los Angeles.

CNN reports that a task force consisting of local and national law enforcement officials has been assembled to further investigate the rapper's 1997 murder.

Wallace, a hometown hero in his native Brooklyn, was shot four times in the chest by an as-of-yet unidentified gunman while leaving an afterparty for the Soul Train Awards. He was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Since his death, rumors have abounded regarding both the identity of Biggie's killer and the motive behind the fatal shooting. The prevalent theory has remained that the shooting came about as a retaliation for Death Row Records rapper Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder in Las Vegas.

Former LAPD detective Russell Poole, who was involved in the 1997 investigation, maintains the belief that Wallace's murder was ordered by Death Row Records' co-founder and former CEO, Marion "Suge" Knight.

"Suge Knight ordered the hit," says Poole, alleging that David Mack, a former LAPD officer, was the one who fired the fatal shots.

Wallace has been the subject of a number of conspiracy theories by die-hard fans, due to the seemingly prophetic album titles 'Ready to Die' and the posthumously released 'Life After Death.'

Similar speculation has been made about Shakur, who has been "spotted" around the world since his murder, including making a supposed pit-stop for drinks in New Orleans as recently as 2009.

Despite the bad blood between Wallace and Shakur during the height of the East Coast-West Coast feud, the rappers' mothers, Voletta Wallace and Afeni Shakur, joined one another on stage at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, where they denounced the culture of violence that their sons fell victim to.

Voletta Wallace told AllHipHop,"All I want, all I ever wanted, is justice for my son's death. All I ever wanted was the truth. And that's not asking too much."

Since his death, Biggie has been a major influence on pop culture. He is the subject of the 2002 documentary 'Biggie and Tupac' and 2009's 'Notorious.' His work has been quoted and sampled by artists, including Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys, 50 Cent and Usher.

Check Out Biggie's 'Juicy' Video. (Warning: Explicit Lyrics)

Tags: Biggie Smalls, notorious b.i.g.

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Friday 07 January

By lillymc

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To the loser who wrote: "keep killing each other," You have a nerve you racist PIG and this is not the forum to advertise where you met someone. I believe they have lonely hearts forums for you hard up individuals to log on to. From everything I heard or have read, this was NOT a BLACK ON BLACK killing but crooked cops and DA's who actually did the killings because they were on Suge Knight's payroll.

By mobster1

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Let them take you out while they are at it. They will be doing us a huge favor.

By salmo60

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"New iformation about B.I.G.'s murder"....then nothing in the article that's anything remotely new. Next thing PopEater will be saying is was Palin or Obama or Bush.

By sc

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Only care that another thug was taken out of the world. Thanks to who ever did it as they did the world a favor.

Saturday 08 January

By Makeda

U insensitive internet THUG!

By THE NEW NO LIMIT

shut up b***h . i'll piss on your loved ones graves .

By jason

RCV,sc, mickey,rudewaitress,ted bundy, mike,tz I HOPE ALL OF YOU "KICK ROCKS"...THE SLOWER THE BETTER... and to everyone else have a blessed day :}

I 2nd that

By Hi Todd

Here is a revelation for the cops, a black thug murdered a black thug. Biggest secret is, NO ONE CARES! LMAO

By ihealem1000

You, obviously.

By samalama

I agree with bahme, you clicked on the site!, also I care what happened to him as well,but a little bummed they didnt give us any new information??

As for rcv,sc, rudewaitress and mickey, yall sound kinda dum and racist! sorry for your personalities!

By Mike

Just wanted to let you know that dum is spelled dumb. I'm not being racist, but trying to educate the ignorant one individual at a time.

By donna

and you can't spell==dumb is forever and you're probably ugly too.

Mike, You should educate yourself before trying to educate others.

By Blessed

It baffles me how ignorant and disrespectful are in 2011. If it was Lady Gaga or someone like that everyone would be up in arms about the whole situation. People are people regardless of what they do for a living or the lifestyle they live. And and injustice is still injustice regardless of someones ethnicity. IF you do not find the article 'Interesting' or simply 'don't care' read something else. I'm sure you have plenty of things to choose from!

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If it was Lady Gag me I would celebrate all the same...

By Mel

No one cares about Lady Gaga either... they brought it onto themselves unfortunately with the feuds... there are bigger problems in the world. Its old news, with no new information. Only their familes really care.

By makeda

Very WELL said!

By gobluespartyon

Mike your being jugemental and your loser that needs to get a life. Wishing famous people death on them and being happy about that which is so wrong to even think that.

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